Dutch companies receive investment to develop tidal energy in Wadden Sea region

Until now, generating sustainable electricity in the Netherlands was mainly done with solar panels and wind turbines.

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00:00Two Dutch companies have received over 2 million euros each for the development of tidal energies,

00:08which is the extraction of energy from tides.

00:11The company Equinox works with a turbine that looks a bit like an underwater windmill, while

00:16the second company, Seacurrent, has created a kite that rotates figure eights on a cable,

00:21which is connected to a generator on the seabed.

00:25The kite will generate electricity for about 600 homes,

00:29that is Hollum and Mafnes, our two largest villages, and hopefully there will be more in the future.

00:36For both companies, the current in the sea as a result of ebb and flow

00:40is then converted into electricity.

00:45The reason for this is that it is already very busy on the Wadden Sea.

00:48We don't know what effect it has on nature, among other things,

00:53and then other things would have to shift so that there would be room for it.

00:57But there are concerns over the profitability.